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the same, in either case, and could not fail to be destructive to 

 > iiii species as find here nearly their extreme northern limits. 



In order to test this question more fully, Professor Baird also 

 employed a fishing vessel, the " Josie Beeves," to go to the 

 ^roiniils and fish systematically ami extensively for the tile-lish. 

 On her first trip, ending September 25, she did not find any 

 "tile-fish," but took another food-fish {Scorpcena dactyhptera), 

 known on the European coast, and first taken by us, in 1880. 



.ll>l;t; llllS to the fauna of Vineyard Snu,,<l ; Si/rfa,<:<- <lr<<hj} n <js. 

 During the intervals between the Grulf-Stream trips, shore 



collecting and a large amount of surface dredging, both by day 

 '.'ere done in the vicinitv of Wood's [loll, by means 

 of the two steam launches belonging to the Fish Commission. 

 In the surface-dredging, Mr. Ewierton took the most active 

 part. The surface work was very productive this season, not 

 only affording a vast number of larval forms of Crustacea, 

 ■Echinodermata, Annelida, Mollusca, etc., but also a large 

 number of adult Annelida, belonging to the Syllidae and 

 various other families, including a number of very interesting 

 new species. Certain species of Autolytus were unusually 

 abundant. Many thousands of specimens of A. varians V. 

 (formerly A. ornatus V.) were often taken in a single evening, 

 the males of both the red and green varieties being far more 

 numerous than the females, which were always bright red, 

 when containing eggs. The males of a much larger specie?, 

 the A. ornatus (Procercea ornata V., 1873, stem-form), were also 

 abundant; the much larger females, which are transversely 

 ^"ded with red, were taken in smaller numbers. A small, but 

 very remarkable, new species (.1. mii-abitis)* first discovered 



rt containing eggs. «i 



